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Steven Forth's avatar

I am personally shattered by the actions of some of the people supporting Hamas and disgusted by their apologists who say they are not supporting Hamas. The divisions of people who see themselves as progressives are being shown in a way that is all too familiar from what has already happened with the alt right.

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Pieter Dorsman's avatar

Agreed.

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Patris's avatar

For anyone acquainted with history it is blatant. Seeing through the hypocrisy is not hard. At all.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

I’ve been wanting to go to Israel to show solidarity since Oct 7. These days many Jews I know including myself feel we would be safest in Israel today than anywhere else in the world.

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Maury's avatar

The foreign policy malpractice by the O'Biden administration and the attempts by Israel to maintain good US relations has prolonged the Gaza war and emboldened Iran.

There are unfortunately more wars to be fought by Israel against enemy Iran's Islamist proxies and the continued US policy malpractice is lessening Israel's deterrence , prolonging the conflicts and increasing the civilian casualties on both sides.

As noted, Israeli's have hit the wall on patience as four more young IDF soldiers (conscripted civilian boys of 18, 19, 21 years) sadly lost their lives defending their country while managing aid trucks this past weekend.

Hamas fired missiles from inside a Gaza civilian encampment at the Kerem Shalom border crossing (destroying it) where trucks are lined up for kilometres to deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza. Hamas's insanity and evil at its ugliest making it obvious that Hamas and/Iran couldn't care one whiff for Arab civilian deaths. Any Gazan civilians afflicted by a supposed claim of famine is on the Hamas and Iran.

Sounds like same as Remembrance Day services in Canada were disrupted by the pro-Hamas burn it down mob, in Holland they feared the same this past weekend.

It's astonishing that the left wing useful imbeciles and their Islamist ring leaders don't seem to appreciate they would never have the same rights to disrupt memorial services in any form of totalitarian/marxist/islamist regime. They just want to blindly disrespect their host/mother country and burn down everyone's society!

They must be stopped and seriously challenged by good citizens who speak out and don't want to see the destruction of our free society and liberal democracy expire. The polar opposite of who is in political power today is fascism and most of us don't want to see that either.

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Pieter Dorsman's avatar

Agreed Maury. The radical protestors are not just anti-Israel, they hate Western values and reject democracy. They're a real danger and the fact that they so present at universities is cause for deep concern.

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Maury's avatar

Totally agree! The anti semitic hate speech is but a mask for a much broader intent to revolutionize and destroy the west. "Globalize the Intifada" or should it be the Antifada?

The long running foreign investment and deep subversion of our higher learning institutions is finally being realized along with the resulting peril beginning to play out.

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Nicole Alagich's avatar

Looking forward to more updates. Nothing like having boots on the ground to get a better account of what’s going on. Safe travels Pieter.

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Pieter Dorsman's avatar

Thanks Nicole!

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JM's avatar

Keep voting Biden/ Trudeau/ Rutte etc. into office and expect more of the same. These people are the Neville Chaimberlins of today. Western leadership and societies adrift, not able to take a stance. The only way I can make it rhyme is we had it too good for too long. We’re due for a reality check. Get ready.

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Steven Forth's avatar

Who do you see as the options?

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JM's avatar

My take is anyone who has the guts to call out the madness and take a stand has my general support. People like elon musk and jordan peterson are leaders imo. And I’ll take trump over biden any day of the week. He is far from perfect but perfection is the enemy of “good enough” in this case.

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Lynn T's avatar

Welcome to the land of milk and honey Pieter. Looking forward to getting more updates from Israel

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Pieter Dorsman's avatar

Thanks. Will try. Lot going on here.

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